While examples of illiteracy abound in Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind “reporting,” books–whether published by traditional publishing venues or self-pub writers–and social media (a rich, rich field to mine for examples), almost nothing beats so-called “memes”1 for a steady supply of illiterate text. Example:
The “meme” featured above was apparently composed by a “misunderedumacated” product of “public education” (A.K.A. “prisons for kids”). The abbreviation for “second” is “2nd,” not “2ed.” Oh, and standard English orthography does NOT have a space between the last word in a sentence and the punctuation closing the sentence, and a question should be punctuated with a question mark, not an exclamation mark. Those practices are reserved for those who never became literate.
But I am sure the reader can supply many, many such examples of folks proudly displaying their illiteracy in “memes” they hope will spread (and infect others with their illiterate text).
1meme: “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture,” or at least that was the meaning when Richard Dawkins coined the word. Since, stupid people have misused it enough that a secondary meaning has become accepted by many as the only meaning they are (illiterately) aware of: “amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media,” and further devolved to mean some graphic/text combo that some illiterate boob hopes will spread. . . #gagamaggot